China Successfully Launches Another Man-Made Earth Satellite

CHINA successfully launched another man-made earth satellite on August 30, 1976. The satellite is functioning normally. The satellite was successfully orbited in the excellent situation in which, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee headed by our great leader Chairman Mao, tremendous victories have been won in the struggle to criticize Teng Hsiao-ping and repulse the Right deviationist attempt at reversing correct verdicts. It is yet another song of victory to Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line, a new achievement in consolidating and developing the victories of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and a new victory in criticizing Teng Hsiao-ping's counter-revolutionary revisionist line and his relapse into the practice of "direct and exclusive control of enterprises by the ministry concerned," and in bringing into full play the initiative of both the central and local authorities, unifying plan, working energetically in close co-ordination and waging a united struggle. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council and the Military Commission of the C.P.C. Central Committee hereby extend warm congratulations to the workers, People's Liberation Army commanders and fighters, scientific workers, engineers and technicians, revolutionary cadres, and militiamen engaged in the research, manufacture and launching of the satellite and other personnel concerned. They express the hope that these comrades will, under the guidance of Chairman Mao's proletarian revolutionary line, take class struggle as the key link, take the criticism of Teng Hsiao-ping as the motive force, grasp revolution, promote production and other work and preparedness against war, sum up their experience conscientiously and make redoubled efforts to win new and still greater victories.